Beginning Yoga -12 March

March 12, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 2:30 pm

From solid foundations, a stronger and more confident yoga practice is built.  

This is the first in a series of workshops Senior Teacher Tanya and Nicole will run throughout 2022.
Both will take students through all elements that have proven to support a well-rounded successful Yoga practice.

Weaving in where scientific research is able to prove the benefits yoga practitioners have known for millennia: Yoga is incredibly beneficial to our overall well-being.

Our time will be educational but more so experiential in a range of techniques to help beginners start as well as options to support experienced students to sink roots in a lot deeper.

Where to begin with Yoga

Taking care of your body, uplifting your mind, and lovingly connecting with your true self.  

The effect yoga has on your body, mind, and spirit is becoming mainstream.  From sincere, skillful, and consistent practice, you can break through self-limiting and self-immobilising thoughts and behaviours to find freedom, peace, and strength to lift yourself up and be the best version of yourself.

At Clayfield Yoga Studio our senior teachers recognise there is quite a lot for a beginner to take in. So instead of rushing throught a 4 or 6 week course there is a series of monthly workshops.

The difference between students that has undergone a teacher training is the time. Lots of practice, and patience instead of rushing through a short course. Students have a better embodiment of Yoga and are able to blend the new learnings more harmoniously with everyday life.  These workshops are not a teacher training but rather space, time with lots of support through a transformational journey. In between each workshop, there will be ongoing support and a social connection through a Facebook group where we can continue to dissect so it becomes easier to digest and better absorbed.
Each workshop will weave all elements of yoga so you get the full spectrum of Yoga as a holistic practice – pranayama (breathing practices), asana (Yoga postures), mantra (affirmations), mudras (hand gestures), meditation (calming your mind), philosophy (past and present teachings to assist in guiding your focus and intention), so each time you leave feeling balanced physically, mentally, and energetically. 

You will learn how:

  • The postures help release pent-up tension.
  • To refine your sensory awareness.
  • Sensitivity is how you become better skilled at being adaptive and resilient.
  • Learn the relaxed rhythms of breathing to help you to reflect rather than react, to soften rather than harden.
  • From a calm place, you see more clearly instead of a foggy stressed headspace.
  • To rest and let the pressure that comes from dwelling on the past or worrying about the future go. Most people don’t recognise they are functioning from stress.

Yoga is an ancient science that for years has been proven by its dedicated students to have a better handle on staying calm and grounded.

With an increase of new teachers, you want to make sure what you are being taught isn’t watered-down from a lack of understanding and experience in this practice.  Yoga is not simple or quick but worth the practice and persistence.  To have an opportunity to learn from embodied knowledge is rare. With over 20 years of dedication, senior teachers Tanya Zappala and Nicole Sanders are experienced and embodied in being able to hold a safe space for you to deepen your Yoga practice.

Each workshop is uniquely themed and can be individually attended. The full series is created as a progression through the chakra system to give students a wonderful transformational journey into getting to know themselves from the ground up.  A journey that takes into account the very messy and often complex phenomenon of what we call a human being and the equally challenging task of everyday life/living.

Tanya and Nicole will share with you the successful tools they use to adapt the postures, to begin or deepen your benefits from meditation practices, find calmness and feel centered from better breathing practices, and feel empowered from philosophy and where science continues to prove the effectiveness of Yoga on the human body.

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